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There's a You Tube video by someone named sockcutter called "My best apophysis animation yet"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_yDlQk1AJI&feature=fvsr I stumbled upon it a couple of years ago while researching GIMP tutorials and was blown away!! I wondered "What is this Apophysis thing, anyway?"  I wanted to learn.  AND, I wanted to find this sockcutter person on dA, but couldn't.   Well, recently I noticed a very familiar-looking image here on dA that turned out to be a still from the You Tube animation. :thumb115052248: The artist is ~mynameisblood (https://www.deviantart.com/mynameisblood)  I've come full circle and finally made the connection between You Tube's sockcutter and

I just had to update my journal since the last one talked about watching it snow!! My weather report for today reveals that it's raining, finally. The new feature on dA that lumps all journal skins together is confusing to me because I've never coded anything before.  I used only installable journal skins.  Now they are all lumped together and called "installable". True, pressing the button does install, but so many of them, including this one, assume a level of understanding to modify them to be useable.  Oh boy. Luckily, the description was clear and I was able to at least delete something unwanted.  (The "links" feature in the Skin Head

It's hard to believe I went two months without visiting dA. Darn!  Missed my one year anniversary here.  Missed Flark's 100th challenge even though I had an offering for it.  Work piled up (the kind I get paid for) and when I looked around, there was no one else in sight to help.  Turns out that way alot when one works alone.....  Could I have spared five minutes or so to check out the happenings here? No! Because  for me, five minutes doesn't exist.  Time just slips away and next thing, it's five hours, often even more.  So the solution was to go cold turkey which I did nicely.   However, I knew my membership was winding down  and  had to c